Every year I am tempted by NBA2K, gave it a miss last year so prob end up getting that

Madden is class but it's just too hard to play online, the games take ages and I don't know anyone who plays it

Fifa I will be getting - I traded 17 in a few months ago so haven't had a game for a while - the prices this year are a joke though, standard edition is £49.99 and the best preorder price I have seen was £46 ffs

and i've just spent 4 weeks on a boat on The Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland with baseball being the only sport they showed on the TV (with the odd bit of footy news and the F1 was on once), still get confused!

That IGN review is pretty much what I have read in a few other reviews. Think I'm going to pass this year.Similarly, PES 18 hasn't really moved on from last year apart from a few improvements. Looks like I might only get NBA 2K as my sports game this year.

Able87 wrote:Yup. Only downside to the game. Not that you need them really. Pay to skip.

Apparently someone on Reddit did the working and you'd need to play something like 200+ games with an A+ rating to afford the upgrades to get to 85 (300 at B+), and that's with no character customisation.

Might be a good sim but that sounds like a tedious grind. The way they've done customisation sounds shit as well, where you can't preview customisation options and they're all single use.

It's haircuts, yeah. And I don't mind all grinding but actively hobbling progression to try and push microtransactions puts me right off a game. Same thing is putting me off Shadow of War, will wait until that's second hand so I'm not supporting it.

And with UT, they created a separate mode for transactions while VC increasingly hobbles modes and progression that were previously un-hobbled.

Apparently the publisher got in touch about it, the score was taken down temporarily, it dropped off aggregate sites and then the score went back up on SixthAxis. SixthAxis were then blacklisted. It's all rather classy.